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Olivier Bardoux is a French spearfisher.
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Olivier Bardoux is a French spearfisher.
Bardoux won gold at the 1997 Euro-African Spearfishing Championship in Marseille as part of the team event and won silver in the individual event behind his teammate Gérard Ségura. [1] [2]
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